Search - Kristina Reiko Cooper :: Stone and Steel (IMPORT)

Enchanting cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper s latest CD, Stone and Steel, is a scintillating combination of the ancient and the modern. Cooper takes some old classics Gregorian chants, songs of the ever-popular Elizabethan composer John Dowland and the haunting aria from Dido and Aeneus, Dido s Lament and musically expresses them in a completelyfresh and novel way. Stone and Steel is scored for cello, piano and percussion and will be released on the Linus Entertainment label, distributed by Koch Distribution in the USA and Universal Music in Canada. Stone and Steel was originally inspired by the time Cooper has spent living in Israel. The juxtaposition of the ancient and the modern, in terms of architecture, culture and thought, have made a huge impression on her. She has always lived in big, modern cities, in glass and steel structures, but mostly plays music that was composed centuries ago, using her very old instrument her cello is from 1786. Stone and Steel represents who she is as a person and as an artist.